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| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 09 04:16PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:Z4ednbjAx6vYUonLnZ2dnUU7- > 1. What is the science of measurement called? > 2. Although angles in two dimensions are commonly measured in > degrees, what is the SI unit for this? Radians > 3. Named after the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, > what is the SI unit of "activity referred to a radionuclide", > or in everyday language, radioactivity? Curie > Four of these are the meter (length/distance), kilogram (mass), > second (time), and kelvin (temperature). Name *any one* of > the other three. (You don't need to say what it measures.) Joule; Atmospheres > fhofgnapr). Bs nyy frira onfr havgf, yvfgrq va dhrfgvbaf #4-5, > bayl bar vf fgvyy onfrq ba n culfvpny negvsnpg (va bgure jbeqf, > n gnatvoyr bowrpg). Juvpu havg vf gung? Meter > qrsvarq va grezf bs gur gevcyr cbvag bs jngre. Gb gur arnerfg > jubyr xryiva, jung vf gur gevcyr cbvag bs jngre? > 9. Juvpu havirefny pbafgnag vf hfrq gb qrsvar gur zrgre? Speed of light > 10. Bar zbyr bs na ryrzrag pbagnvaf 6.022 k 10^23 ngbzf. Jung vf > guvf pbafgnag ahzore pnyyrq? Avogadro's number > just offshore from what is now Lebanon. In 332 BC Alexander the > Great famously built a causeway from the mainland to the city, > allowing his army to conquer it. Tyre > Athenian military expedition in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian > War: the entire expeditionary force was either killed or captured > and sold into slavery. Palermo > 3. Known as the coffee capital of Italy, this city near the Northern > tip of the Adriatic Sea was ruled for centuries by the Habsburg > Monarchy until it was annexed by Italy following World War I. Trieste > but these days it is more famous for the 2012-09-11 attacks > on American diplomatic compounds and the resulting political > scandal that followed. Benghazi > 5. This city lying in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius is famous today > as the birthplace of pizza, the mandolin, and the Camorra > crime syndicate. Naples > height of this lighthouse at 450 feet (137 meters) -- quite a > feat of engineering in 247 BC, when it was completed. Name the > city, still in existence, where this lighthouse once stood. Alexandria > short history, this city was founded in 1909 by 66 immigrant > families. It suffered heavy damage from Scud missiles launched > by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Tel Aviv > came under French colonial rule that lasted until 1962. It is > famous as the setting for Albert Camus's novel "The Outsider" > (also titled "The Stranger"). Algiers > The city played a somewhat less glorious role in World War II, > as it was seized without a struggle in 1941 by the German 2nd > Panzer Division. Thessaloniki > fitting revenge for the crushing defeats inflicted upon Rome > by Hannibal during the war. Name the ancient city destroyed > by the Romans. Carthage Pete |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 12:09AM -0500 Mark Brader: > All units that we'll ask about in this round are part of the SI -- > the Système International d'Unités. > 1. What is the science of measurement called? Metrology. World Metrology Day was celebrated on May 20, remember? 4 for Dan Tilque, Bruce, Stephen, and Joshua. > 2. Although angles in two dimensions are commonly measured in > degrees, what is the SI unit for this? Radian. 4 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Stephen, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete. > 3. Named after the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, > what is the SI unit of "activity referred to a radionuclide", > or in everyday language, radioactivity? Becquerel. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Erland, Stephen, and Calvin. 3 for Björn and Joshua. 2 for Dan Blum. Some people tried the curie; this is a non-SI unit (although in the US it is accepted for use with the SI) equal to 37 gigabecquerels. Radioactivity was discovered by Becquerel in 1896; Pierre and Marie Curie were among the first people who then worked with it. There are other units related to radioactivity and named after people, but they all relate to people exposed to radiation, not the radioactivity itself. The roentgen is a unit of radiation exposure; the rem (where the "R" stands for roentgen), the gray, and the sievert are all units of absorbed dose. The last two of these are SI units and the roentgen is accepted in the US for use with the SI. > Four of these are the meter (length/distance), kilogram (mass), > second (time), and kelvin (temperature). Name *any one* of > the other three. (You don't need to say what it measures.) Ampere, candela, mole. 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Erland, Björn, and Stephen. > Please decode the rot13 for question 5 -- and *not* for any later > questions, yet -- only after you have finished with #1-4. < 5. The three correct answers to #4 are the ampere (electric < current), candela (luminous intensity), and mole (amount of < substance). Of all seven base units, listed in questions #4-5, < only one is still based on a physical artifact (in other words, < a tangible object). Which unit is that? Kilogram. You were asked for a unit, not a unit of what, but I generously scored "mass" as almost correct (since #4 stated explicitly that the kilogram is a unit of mass). 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, and Joshua. 3 for Björn and Calvin. > 6. Specifically, the kilogram is defined as the mass of a metal > alloy cylinder kept in France. Name *either* of the two elements > this cylinder is made of. Platinum (90%), iridium (10%). 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Marc, Stephen, and Joshua (the hard way). > The constant is denoted by the lower-case letter "h" and its > value is 6.626 × 10^-34 joule-seconds. Which scientist is that > constant named after? Max Planck. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, and Calvin. > 8. The unit of thermodynamic temperature is the kelvin, and is > defined in terms of the triple point of water. To the nearest > whole kelvin, what is the triple point of water? 273 K. (The exact value is 273.16 K.) You were asked for the triple point, not how many kelvins it is, but I generously accepted "273" without a unit as almost correct. 4 for Peter, Björn, and Joshua. 3 for Dan Tilque, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Stephen, and Calvin. > 9. Which universal constant is used to define the meter? Speed of light (in vacuum). The meter is defined so as to make it exactly 299,792,458 m/s. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Calvin, and Pete. You were asked for the constant, not the definition, but I would have generously scored "the length that light travels in 1/299,792,458 s" as almost correct, or even a version with the fraction given as 1/300,000,000. However, the entrant who tried this answer gave it as 1/300,000! > 10. One mole of an element contains 6.022 x 10^23 atoms. What is > this constant number called? Avogadro's number. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Stephen, Joshua, and Pete. > just offshore from what is now Lebanon. In 332 BC Alexander the > Great famously built a causeway from the mainland to the city, > allowing his army to conquer it. Tyre. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Marc, Björn, Stephen, Joshua, and Pete. > Athenian military expedition in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian > War: the entire expeditionary force was either killed or captured > and sold into slavery. Syracuse. And I'm definitely not accepting "Sicily"! 4 for Dan Blum, Erland, and Björn. > 3. Known as the coffee capital of Italy, this city near the Northern > tip of the Adriatic Sea was ruled for centuries by the Habsburg > Monarchy until it was annexed by Italy following World War I. Trieste. 4 for Dan Tilque, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Stephen, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete. > but these days it is more famous for the 2012-09-11 attacks > on American diplomatic compounds and the resulting political > scandal that followed. Benghazi. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Stephen, Joshua, and Pete. > 5. This city lying in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius is famous today > as the birthplace of pizza, the mandolin, and the Camorra > crime syndicate. Naples. 4 for everyone. > height of this lighthouse at 450 feet (137 meters) -- quite a > feat of engineering in 247 BC, when it was completed. Name the > city, still in existence, where this lighthouse once stood. Alexandria. I scored "Pharos" as almost correct; it's the place (then an island) *in* Alexandria where the lighthouse was. 4 for Dan Tilque, Bruce, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Stephen, Joshua, and Pete. 3 for Peter. > short history, this city was founded in 1909 by 66 immigrant > families. It suffered heavy damage from Scud missiles launched > by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Tel Aviv. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Marc, Stephen, Joshua, and Pete. > came under French colonial rule that lasted until 1962. It is > famous as the setting for Albert Camus's novel "The Outsider" > (also titled "The Stranger"). Algiers. 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Björn, Stephen, and Pete. 3 for Joshua. > The city played a somewhat less glorious role in World War II, > as it was seized without a struggle in 1941 by the German 2nd > Panzer Division. Thessaloniki or Salonika. 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Erland, Stephen, Joshua, and Pete. > fitting revenge for the crushing defeats inflicted upon Rome > by Hannibal during the war. Name the ancient city destroyed > by the Romans. Carthage. 4 for Dan Tilque, Peter, Dan Blum, Marc, Erland, Björn, Stephen, Joshua, Calvin, and Pete. Scores, if there are no errors: GAME 5 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS TOPICS-> Sci His Dan Tilque 39 36 75 Stephen Perry 31 36 67 Marc Dashevsky 31 36 67 Joshua Kreitzer 27 35 62 Dan Blum 25 32 57 Erland Sommarskog 23 28 51 Peter Smyth 36 15 51 Bruce Bowler 35 16 51 Björn Lundin 26 24 50 Pete Gayde 12 36 48 "Calvin" 22 12 34 -- Mark Brader | "I think it's safe to say that no person can hope to Toronto | achieve basic life competence without consulting my msb@vex.net | work on a regular basis." -- Cecil Adams My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 10 04:04AM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > TOPICS-> Sci His > Dan Tilque 39 36 75 > Stephen Perry 31 36 67 Let us pause to savor the moment when I'm actually ahead of Stephen. Such moments are rare. -- Dan Tilque |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Oct 10 11:03AM Mark Brader wrote: > > the other three. (You don't need to say what it measures.) > Ampere, candela, mole. 4 for Dan Tilque, Marc, Erland, Björn, > and Stephen. I got 4 (the hard way), as did Bruce. Peter Smyth |
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| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 10 12:12AM -0500 These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-05-25, and should be interpreted accordingly. On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup, based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. All questions were written by members of Five Guys Named Moe, and are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)". * Game 5, Round 4 - Sports - Yoga Poses Namaste! Please see the handout at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/5-4/yoga.pdf and let's see how many of these common yoga poses you know. As well as the pictures, we will give you the names in Sanskrit and a brief description. I have rearranged the questions in picture order; there were two decoys, which you may identify for fun, but for no points. Each answer is a single word in English. 1. Halasana (decoy). 2. Savasana, a restorative pose. 3. Balasana, a resting pose that's the usual alternative given in class if you are unable to do a more advanced pose. 4. Paripurna navasana is is great for building core strength. 5. Marjaryasana, a gentle stretch usually done in tandem with the cow pose. 6. Utkatasana means powerful or fierce pose; it's strengthening and stretching pose. 7. Padmasana, a calming seated pose. 8. Vrksasana, a standing pose that helps improve balance. Beginners can often only place their raised foot at their ankle or shin, while more advanced yogis can reach their inner thigh. 9. Virabhadrasana, a strength pose with three variations. This is version #2. 10. Ustrasana (decoy). 11. Bhujangasana, a chest-opener pose that's often used in a sun-salutation asana. 12. Dandasana, another resting pose, that's often the start of poses done on the floor. After completing the round, please decode the rot13: vs lbh fnvq "fanxr" sbe nal nafjre, cyrnfr tb onpx naq anzr gur pbeerpg fcrpvsvp fanxr vafgrnq. * Game 5, Round 6 - Canadiana - Nunavut And then there were three. Let's see how well you know Canada's largest, northernmost, and newest territory. 1. Within one year, in what year did Nunavut officially separate from the Northwest Territories to become Canada's third territory? 2. What does the word "Nunavut" mean in Inuktitut? 3. The territorial flag is yellow and white and contains a blue star and what other iconic symbol? 4. From 1999 until 2012, Nunavut used the same design of license plate as the Northwest Territories. On its new design, you will find one <answer 3>, three streams of northern lights, and 25 stars; but there is also one other symbol of the north. What? 5. What is Nunavut's current capital city? 6. This hamlet is known for its artisans who work in many media including ceramics, carving and prints. It is also the second most populous center, with 2,577 people according to the 2011 census. Name this community. 7. How many members represent Nunavut in the House of Commons? 8. Historical accounts of Nunavut began in 1576 with the journal of the English explorer who led an expedition to find the Northwest Passage and made the first recorded European contact with the Inuit. Name the explorer. 9. Though born in Churchill, Manitoba, this New Jersey Devil grew up and learned to play hockey in <answer 6>. Name him. 10. This Inuit singer-songwriter was also born in Churchill, but was raised in Arviat. The first single, "O Siem", from her breakthrough album "This Child" went to #1 on the Canadian adult contemporary and country charts. Name her. -- Mark Brader "You are dangerously close to attempting Toronto to apply logic and sense to the actions msb@vex.net of the Florida legislators." --Tony Cooper My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Oct 09 04:24PM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > 2 From the Middle Ages until > the 20th century, masseur was a traditional occupation for persons > suffering from which disability? Polio > 3 What is the square root of 15,129? 123 > 4 In 1985, which Swedish actor played Russian boxer Ivan > Drago in "Rocky IV"? Dolph Lundgren > 5 In ten-pin bowling, how many consecutive > strikes are required to achieve the maximum 300 score? 12 > 2007 album "Where We Land"? > 7 Who appeared on the first cover of Rolling Stone > magazine in 1967? John Lennon > 8 On which river are the Victoria Falls? Zambezi > 9 Pooh Bah and Yum Yum are characters in which Gilbert and > Sullivan light opera? Mikado > 10 Which TV drama concerns an FBI agent who > recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve challenging > crimes? Person of Interest > cheers, > Calvin Pete |
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